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Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...

Unicode 17.0 is now final: the standard published its stable code-point set on 9 September 2025, and with it Emoji 17.0 has been formally recommended for vendor implementation. The release formalizes thousands of new Unicode characters and a sizeable emoji update that vendors will begin turning...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum‑safe future is no longer a research manifesto: it’s a multi‑year engineering and procurement plan that maps how SymCrypt, Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and silicon will evolve to resist the cryptanalytic power of future quantum computers. The company has...

Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf and his team are working to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies through engaging enterprise developers. Continue reading...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Link Removed and Link Removed. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components, please see part one, “Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components.“...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on Web Components by Microsoft Edge engineers Link Removed and Link Removed. To read more about our viewpoint and background on web components, please see part one, “Bringing componentization to the web: An overview of Web Components.“...

Today’s Internet of Things landscape is a modern day Tower of Babel – a proliferation of communication protocols and data formats across the device ecosystem that make it difficult for devices to “speak the same language” and work together in harmony. This reality makes it difficult for us to...

Over the past year the Microsoft Edge team has been hard at work on a new browser engine that will be better than ever at correctly, quickly, and reliably rendering the Web. As a user, your favorite web sites will just work, and as a web developer, you will find that Microsoft Edge should just...

ECMAScript is the official name for the JavaScript language we all know and love. The next version of ECMAScript, ES6 (henceforth referred to by its new name, ES2015), is nearing the end of its standards process journey. At this stage Link Removed is final and will not be receiving any further...

Revamps app virtualisation, hardware standards. More...

The last time we got the chance to talk to Mohsen Agsen, a Microsoft Technical Fellow who runs the Visual C++ engineering team, he put forward the notion of a renaissance taking place in the native world. Shortly thereafter, we created the catchy Link Removed mantra. (Mohsen is great at building...

I was lucky enough to catch up with Herb Sutter not too long after the FDIS announcement (Final Draft International Standard is complete). As usual when talking to Herb, the conversation is all about C++ (well, we do talk about C# for a little while, but in the context of C++. Why? Tune in...)...

The browser has become the single piece of software most widely deployed and used. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Firefox's Mozilla are in a race to develop more functional browsers. The core functionality of these browsers must be the same to comply with W3C standards, but they compete on the...

Chris and Robert explain the benefits of following the Microsoft SDL to building more secure, reliable, and standard-compliant software. Link Removed More...

The European Commission has been forced into extraordinary negotiations with Microsoft because it is locked in to using the vendor's software and standards. More...

As promised, the great Stephan T. Lavavej is back! Link Removed Tens of thousands of you have watched STL's (those are his initials, so that's what we call him) Link Removed, or Standard Template Library. If you haven't, you should. This series, Advanced STL, covers the gory details of the...

The following link will only work for browsers that support HTML5 and Flash. Currently, the only browser not in beta that supports this is Google Chrome. The test will not work with some browsers. What is HTML5? Hypertext Markup Language 5 is the next version of the HTML (web standard). Some...

ECMAScript is object-based: basic language and host facilities are provided by objects, and an ECMAScript program is a cluster of communicating objects. An ECMAScript object is a collection of properties each with zero or more attributes that determine how each property can be used—for example...

Link RemovedThis week on Web Camps TV*Link Removed talks to*Link Removed about the new craze sweeping the world of services - OData*- the new web protocol for querying and updating data. Jonathan describes how OData (short for Open Data protocol)*is great for companies who are hosting services...

Suppose you went to the supermarket to buy a pound of steak for dinner and when you got home you noticed that the package seemed very light. So you went back and complained to the manager, only to be told that the label says "up to 1 pound", and you're stuck with it. You'd be furious, of...